It's SO UNFAIR that you feel left out!!! It's also unfair that I live in North Carolina and have to wait until our May primary when there will only be one name left on the ballot for President. Your acting like this is your first rodeo and I'm sure it isn't. Since my first election in 1976, I have had the pleasure of voting for a candidate I truly believed in twice, 1980 and 1984. In all the others I have voted against the Democrat and live with the results, but the main thing is that I cast my vote in the best direction I could to beat them. Sometimes it worked, other times not so good. McCain is a liberal, I won't deny that. He has also been a royal pain and road block for everything good President Bush has tried to push through Congress. When it comes down to this election in November and our choices on the ballot, there will be one on two Liberal Socialists running as a Democrat, and most likely one Liberal Capitalist I will be voting against the Socialists by voting for the Capitalist. If you don't bother showing up, or vote for some third party left-over, it will be 1/2 a vote for the Socialists.
Nice rant, but please point out where I talked about me. I had my vote here in Florida. I pointed out that the primary system was changed this year, perhaps on purpose or perhaps unwittingly, to one that was tailor made for a candidate to be chosen who did not have the support of the conservative base. That is a demonstrable fact, and I believe, a decision that the party will come to regret, if it doesn’t already. I know the Republican party of Florida is in a panic about keeping our largely Republican House delegation. They believe McCain is unlikely to win the state, or even if he does eke out a win, he will have no coattails, since so many of his supporters are crossover Dems who will vote for him at the top but for Dems further down. The party is identifying vulnerable seats, and the inside baseball line is that if the district isn’t +6 or more (i.e., six percentage points more Republican than Democrat) the seat is in danger. THAT is what the nomination of McCain has wrought.
As for voting for the capitalist, that’s downright humorous. McCain has never worked a day in his life in the private sector, and is fond of saying he works for “patriotism, not profit.” Nice soundbite until you stop to consider that it is capitalism that funds the arsenal of democracy, so without profit, patriotism is going begging. Your great capitalist got where he is on his second wife’s daddy’s money, big bucks country club donors, and George Soros. Sucking up to capitalists does not a capitalist make. And, I had to laugh when he listed as one of his economic bona fides the fact that he BOUGHT Greenspan’s book, not that he READ it. Yep, quite a capitalist there.